Week 4 Topic

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

While we are waiting for the run-off results, the rest of you will be getting started with the NEW TOPIC.

I've said elsewhere that it would be a hated one, even though I happen to LOVE it. I've also said that it replaces a hated topic. These are all true statements.

"Open Topic" is being shelved until at least the Top 100. . . in it's place is this glorious variation!!

Pay attention because there are some moving parts on this and I don't want anyone to get confused.

The topic is CURRENT EVENTS.

Which is completely vague. However, here is what I mean for this topic: I want you to go to a news feed of some sort. You're online, I'm sure you come across news of some sort in your travels. Maybe an online newspaper, maybe when you log into your email in some some of feed.

I'd LOVE it to be a local story, but I'm not going to enforce that. It can be any subject, as long as it's something going on in the world around you right now. (in the last few days, you can use your own judgment on that.)

Post a link to the story you find somewhere in your post. But here's the important part: Write an entry about your feelings on this news story. How does it connect to you? Why should other people care? Why does this matter?

Becoming the next LJ IDOL means that (1) you can write about just about anything and make it something worth reading and (2) you have a reasonably informed idea of what is going on in the world around you. You have an opinion and are not afraid to let people know what that opinion might be.

So go for it. Read the news. Find the story that appeals the most to YOU, and write about it!!!

Then come back here and post the link to your entry here by the deadline of Friday November 30 at noon EST.

Have fun!!!
I know I will!!!

Comments

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

The next US Presidential election is in 343 days. (http://rosepurr.livejournal.com/862740.html?mode=reply)

[ewok-626.livejournal.com]

Good cafeteria food?! (http://ewok-626.livejournal.com/201446.html)

How Many Stage Hands does it take to screw in a light bulb?

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

My thoughts on the current state of stage and screen (http://puppetmaker40.livejournal.com/406574.html)

[mezzominty.livejournal.com]

Taking a "bye" because "...there she was / Like double cherry pie / Yeah there she was / Like disco superfly / I smell sex and candy here..." / No wait, that's not why... / It's because of school and finals that I need the "bye"

:(

[adpaz.livejournal.com]

Teach Our Children Well (http://adpaz.livejournal.com/993299.html)

I'm one of the first five!!!

[bangdrum.livejournal.com]

Read here (http://bangdrum.livejournal.com/145669.html)

[dubheach.livejournal.com]

I need to plead "bye" this week for finals too.

Gary, since I have Two finals and a paper due during Monday could you please give us longer than 24 hours to vote this time since some of us won't get a chance to read any entries before then?? Pretty please?

Here Goes....

[blue-eye.livejournal.com]

Wonder how many "bye weeks" we will have?

I thought about it and decided to plug along.... (http://blue-eye.livejournal.com/384893.html)

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

http://angstzeit.livejournal.com/271614.html

[rm.livejournal.com]

http://rm.livejournal.com/1225674.html

[40sw.livejournal.com]

http://40sw.livejournal.com/640770.html


...and of course, this will probably change

[superhappytime.livejournal.com]

Here is my post. (http://superhappytime.livejournal.com/10651.html?mode=reply) It's controversial. It's cutting edge. It will change your life. (probably not).

[gonadsandstrife.livejournal.com]

I'm so ashamed for invoking Hitler. (http://gonadsandstrife.livejournal.com/652545.html)

Ouch

[imafarmgirl.livejournal.com]

http://imafarmgirl.livejournal.com/328876.html

Oh no...what to do...

[unsold-capacity.livejournal.com]

http://unsold-capacity.livejournal.com/239031.html

[forceworks.livejournal.com]

To love and be loved in return, without being threatened or shamed for having that love... (http://forceworks.livejournal.com/2042.html)

[gatorgal1985.livejournal.com]

Like a comet blazing 'cross the evening sky...gone too soon
Like a rainbow fading in the twinkling of an eye...gone too soon

http://gatorgal1985.livejournal.com/218190.html

Enjoy!

[baxaphobia.livejournal.com]

http://baxaphobia.livejournal.com/40678.html

LJIdol entry week 4

[desert-rose.livejournal.com]

My entry for this week.

The importance of Emergency public hospital care (http://golden-sands.livejournal.com/80706.html)

[goth-hippy.livejournal.com]

http://nerdygirrl.livejournal.com/115859.html

[shay-writes.livejournal.com]

What does GOING GLOBAL mean to you? (http://shay-writes.livejournal.com/40375.html)

[az-starshine.livejournal.com]

Religion and politics don't make good bedfellows (http://az-starshine.livejournal.com/268852.html).

[tulip-in-yellow.livejournal.com]

If you want change (http://tulip-in-yellow.livejournal.com/71477.html)

[cindynmuttnaz.livejournal.com]

http://cindynmuttnaz.livejournal.com/23597.html

[kindapoetry.livejournal.com]

http://bleuunicorn.livejournal.com/135109.html